April 12, 2006
Turkish vs. Iraqi Kurdistan
I've just been absolutely enthralled by Mike Totten's travelogue describing his journey to Kurdistan through Turkey. Today's post is the best one:
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The whole thing was just weird. I donÂ’t quite know how to convey how surreal it is to leave a country that maybe, just maybe, might join the European Union and enter a country that is a poster-child for wrenching war-torn catastrophe and have everything around me dramatically improve all at once. But that's how it goes these days when you cross into Iraq from Turkey. Even though Sean had never been there before, he, like me, breathed a sigh of relief at our arrival in a tranquil place at peace with itself.I understand that there may be some good reasons for not supporting Kurdish independence, but each time I read about Kurdistan those reasons seem to ring a little more hollow.
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Thanks for pointing me to a great writer and a good story. I gave him some $$$, too--I've always been interested in Kurdistan. One thing he omits, though--Barzani and Talabani are both pretty authoritarian. Their virtue is that they allow relatively free markets (with some corruption, particularly on the larger economic endeavors and trade). They don't allow free speech or political freedoms. But there are probably damn few Kurds who wouldn't prefer life in N. Iraq now to life in Syria, Iran, or Turkey...
Posted by: jd at April 12, 2006 02:02 PM (aqTJB)
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